Allotaxonometry for all
Boys 1895 vs 1930
Here is the rank of the babynames for 1895
Here is the ranking for boy babynames in the US for 1930
If you wanted to compare which babyname got more popular over time, how would you do it? You can say that Robert is more popular than John. Then what?
The diamond plot is an histogram, where the axis are the rank of the tokens
A perfect diagonal would be if all names were of the same rank for both years
As you get further away from the diagonal on the right, you get the most popular boy babynames for 1930
Finally we can put everything together, contrasting two different years in different ways
Divergence
What are divergences? What are they doing down there?